Another command that's useful to reducing the grind is the "find" command. It will search for any names that match the search string you give it, so the command: find 'aban' will find any abandoned POIs, and it gives you their XYZ coordinates. So you can head for it, enjoying the scenery along the way. :)
The hex codes of the container colors also count for sorting. So you can use them instead of the prefix letters. This makes the names a bit more recognizable at first sight.
Always had respect for your skills in this game spanj but since starting to play it myself (I have logged approx 70 hours now) I now have mad respect at your combat skills, especially vs legacy
WOW Great episode Spanj! Vermillion really reworked that POI, I have not played this game since the old days and that POI used to be hard but it really wasn't 'that hard' crazy amount of upgrade. I made a 1X1 SV that had 2 rocket launchers and wrecked that place very quickly after it got old :D
"ZHC" is Zirax High Command :) Wow, I know that Vermillion reworked factory from RE, I didn't realize that it had been integrated into Vanilla. I'm glad it was though, the old version was a bit of a cheese factory, and Vermillion did an awesome job on the remaster. Hard as nails, but quite well done! 45:33 Be honest, how long did you waffle about looking for how to open that door before noticing the motion sensor 😂
That was really cool, never seen that iteration of the Abandoned Factory before. Has a lot of inspiration from the Ilmarinen it seems with doubling back to find switches to progress through and not being 100% linear in that regard. Vermillion did a fantastic job with it!
Yeah, that looks like a really good design. One of the frustrating parts for me with the Illmarinen was how linear and cramped it is and how it gives Abominations a bit of an edge with numbers of them rushing at you. Also the Infected Troops with laser rifles are very tough to deal with. But yeah, this version of Abandoned Factory seems less linear with a number of forks designed to have you clear out sections before continuing onto the final section.
Hey Spanj great Stream ...think you left your Lucky back on the ship lol And yeah some of the Jump scares in this game will give you brown trousers, or shorts or whatever your wearing. Hope I get as good as you some day, I'm still a noob.
I have a feeling that those abandoned buildings became pretty rare in the starter system... and the single one that is left on the starter planets, is part of the starter quests. So that slows down the beginning quite a bit. Feels like there were more of those on the old starters - guess cause they were actual planets and not just moons.
Reads as closer in space bc in space distances are absolute but in planet they are given on spherical surface. Also, i swear the hammerhead had a repair station up in the cabin.
I enjoyed this series of videos. Thanks for the playthrough and extra tips like Hot Keys and command line single player cheats. Do you ever play with the ASTIC scripts or make a video that showcases how it helps with Quality of Life and Saves Time?
ZHC- Zirax High Command. Would you think of maybe doing a series on just running all the different POIs most of the ones you maybe haven’t done. Cut out all the grind and so the console commands be like a how to do series this poi
It would be worth a vid as a lot of the POIs have changed drastically since the old Alpha days. I have seen Spanj wreck these POIs 100s of times, but Vermillion put magic into these old haunts.
ZHC, Zirax High Command? I remember the days when we didn't have to reload. Empyrion is the only shooter I've played since Doom 2, so I never missed reloading and crouching; I didn't know people expected those. I now get the point of reloading, it's an interesting mechanic. As for crouching; I never needed it in Empyrion and I don't think I'll ever use it.
Commands can be a handy way to avod some of the late game grindy'ness. I do hope for a bit of automation that can be implemented in the game. An example would be Auto-miners. Auto-miners are great, but it is a massive pain in the butt to run around and grab them. Things like that and ammo production could be solved with some game logic of "Keep this ammo at or above this level" type of things
Thanks for the tips. I don't see a problem with using 'ents -all', etc. Kind of like a Star Trek-style global scanner. However, to add immersion I would give myself rules, e.g. like the ship has to be a capital ship with certain 'enabling' components installed, like a long range scanner. Voluntary, but it takes away the cheating mentality for me.
I'd prefer not to use the POI command, but I'd also like to have the Epic CV detector upgrade be far more useful than it is today (it only sees improvement in space.) The other way to discover stuff quickly is to use the Epic HV detector upgrade, but then you have to worry about navigating around mountains again.
If you've covered all the basic keyboard/mouse UI controls, which one of your videos has it? If you haven't, would you consider adding it to one of your upcoming videos? I've forgotten half of them, looked through the control file settings and can't find them. Particularly, the stupid hoverbike - I can't change zoom or view. Grrr... Thanks Spanj - hope the family's doing fine!!!
@monkeybarmonkeyman hit the ESC look at the top left for the gear, that will get you into your settings while in game you can also just change your keys to the way you like them. Also just click on Spanj name under the bottom left, this will take you to all his Videos, Start with the beginning ones that he has just released. check his building videos also as he explains in many of them different key combos do do different things in the game for building and such. he just released over the last couple months several new Videos for new people to the game to help them get up to speed with the game And the New hover bike is quite good in comparison to the old Bike. Just go into your inventory and put it on your toolbar where ever you want then just click that key and set it out. The game will tell you how to pick it up either shift + F or Shift + E to pick it back up. Note: I'm a 100% disabled, My keys I have set different as I use a special keyboard as my hands barely work. On Building in the game you need to make a core block for either Base, HV, SV, or CV put it in your Toolbar set it out. to start a build if you take over a POI you can just set a core unless it has a admin core these are special no build or claim POI's, which could be tied to the story or missions or if on someone's server maybe blocked so the poi will respawn. Your building keys are also shown in your key bindings. Plus the game will take you by the hand on a lot of all this if you just do the starter missions as a beginner to get up to speed also the wiki. Good way to knock off the rust if you haven't played in a while. you can get into the Building trees and almost everything by just hitting " F1, F2, F3 while in the game. Just go through the tabs in there. explore it all explains a lot about missions and the game even yourself and the spec's you have and the constructor. Hope some of this helps you or any new people to the game to get into the game and just have fun. And yeah i'm just a noob at this game myself lol
I was wondering if it’s possible to design a mini base to cover your auto miners with a teleporter inside, so you could easily access each auto miner and collect resources. What do you think?
I'm enjoying this playthrough and it's inspired me to replay this game, but how the hell do you reset the solo missions? I did a complete playthrough a while ago. Starting a new game (still on Akua) doesn't give me any of the solo missions though.
@@Spanj Yeah, blonde moment I feel. I was still on the starter moon, I hadn't gotten round to warping to Omicron........... -.- TY for the reply though!
don't really like using other's stuff, i prefer the satisfaction of building something myself although definitely taking away some building inspiration from these :)
"With Vermillion it is never shoot something . . .," Which is exactly why it was "shoot something" this time. Vermillion seems to be changing things up.
You know me well, Spanj. I do like things easier. I have no problems using 'cheats'. Especially once I've finished the scenarios and am playing free form. On another note, I still cringe when I hear those pesky Legacy goons. But an interesting POI.
At this point the game become too easy imo. Beside there is no real purpose to build a huge ship. The concept of a base ship is not really realizable in Vanilla as smelter are only base items. You certainly also start to suffer from the ever increasing mass of this base ship. Wich slows you down. Probably the worst mechanic iv'e seen so far in a game. Mass do not cut your end speed, speeding up just take longer.
Another command that's useful to reducing the grind is the "find" command. It will search for any names that match the search string you give it, so the command:
find 'aban'
will find any abandoned POIs, and it gives you their XYZ coordinates. So you can head for it, enjoying the scenery along the way. :)
The hex codes of the container colors also count for sorting. So you can use them instead of the prefix letters.
This makes the names a bit more recognizable at first sight.
Always had respect for your skills in this game spanj but since starting to play it myself (I have logged approx 70 hours now) I now have mad respect at your combat skills, especially vs legacy
Thanks for the quick tutorial on box organisation, as a loot goblin I found this so helpful, especially the colour bit. :))
Good one Spanj - oddly enough, I've never seen that POI before, so many thanks for the walk through.
I can't wait to see your next ship. Great vid and thanks again for all the tips and tricks 👌
WOW Great episode Spanj! Vermillion really reworked that POI, I have not played this game since the old days and that POI used to be hard but it really wasn't 'that hard' crazy amount of upgrade. I made a 1X1 SV that had 2 rocket launchers and wrecked that place very quickly after it got old :D
"ZHC" is Zirax High Command :)
Wow, I know that Vermillion reworked factory from RE, I didn't realize that it had been integrated into Vanilla. I'm glad it was though, the old version was a bit of a cheese factory, and Vermillion did an awesome job on the remaster. Hard as nails, but quite well done!
45:33 Be honest, how long did you waffle about looking for how to open that door before noticing the motion sensor 😂
I may or may not but definitely did cut over 5 minutes at that point......
You can also use the commands: [i] italics, [b] bold and [u] underline whilst labelling your boxes.
Yep, those text panels have a good amount of hypertext tags that can be used in-game.
That was really cool, never seen that iteration of the Abandoned Factory before. Has a lot of inspiration from the Ilmarinen it seems with doubling back to find switches to progress through and not being 100% linear in that regard. Vermillion did a fantastic job with it!
Yeah, that looks like a really good design. One of the frustrating parts for me with the Illmarinen was how linear and cramped it is and how it gives Abominations a bit of an edge with numbers of them rushing at you. Also the Infected Troops with laser rifles are very tough to deal with.
But yeah, this version of Abandoned Factory seems less linear with a number of forks designed to have you clear out sections before continuing onto the final section.
You have the things that make things that do things and things.
Hey Spanj great Stream ...think you left your Lucky back on the ship lol
And yeah some of the Jump scares in this game will give you brown trousers, or shorts or whatever your wearing. Hope I get as good as you some day, I'm still a noob.
I have a feeling that those abandoned buildings became pretty rare in the starter system... and the single one that is left on the starter planets, is part of the starter quests. So that slows down the beginning quite a bit. Feels like there were more of those on the old starters - guess cause they were actual planets and not just moons.
Thanks for the info and the entertainment. I've learned a lot from this series and love your sense of humor. Have a fantastic week.
Great vid!
Would be great if you could craft a drone to map the planet/sector for you.
i remember those days xD
Reads as closer in space bc in space distances are absolute but in planet they are given on spherical surface.
Also, i swear the hammerhead had a repair station up in the cabin.
I enjoyed this series of videos. Thanks for the playthrough and extra tips like Hot Keys and command line single player cheats. Do you ever play with the ASTIC scripts or make a video that showcases how it helps with Quality of Life and Saves Time?
thank you mate. love your videos gives me hope i might avtualy be able to clear a poi wthout dieing
ZHC- Zirax High Command.
Would you think of maybe doing a series on just running all the different POIs most of the ones you maybe haven’t done. Cut out all the grind and so the console commands be like a how to do series this poi
It would be worth a vid as a lot of the POIs have changed drastically since the old Alpha days. I have seen Spanj wreck these POIs 100s of times, but Vermillion put magic into these old haunts.
ZHC, Zirax High Command?
I remember the days when we didn't have to reload. Empyrion is the only shooter I've played since Doom 2, so I never missed reloading and crouching; I didn't know people expected those. I now get the point of reloading, it's an interesting mechanic. As for crouching; I never needed it in Empyrion and I don't think I'll ever use it.
Spanj, idk if you know this but if you spam medpacks it will only reset the timer, it won’t give you all of the health
Commands can be a handy way to avod some of the late game grindy'ness. I do hope for a bit of automation that can be implemented in the game. An example would be Auto-miners. Auto-miners are great, but it is a massive pain in the butt to run around and grab them. Things like that and ammo production could be solved with some game logic of "Keep this ammo at or above this level" type of things
Hay look it is a dark video, must be a new Spanj video. :)
Thanks for the tips.
I don't see a problem with using 'ents -all', etc. Kind of like a Star Trek-style global scanner. However, to add immersion I would give myself rules, e.g. like the ship has to be a capital ship with certain 'enabling' components installed, like a long range scanner. Voluntary, but it takes away the cheating mentality for me.
Nice
i dont wana admit how long that dam poi took me to figure out when i did it lol
I'd prefer not to use the POI command, but I'd also like to have the Epic CV detector upgrade be far more useful than it is today (it only sees improvement in space.) The other way to discover stuff quickly is to use the Epic HV detector upgrade, but then you have to worry about navigating around mountains again.
If you've covered all the basic keyboard/mouse UI controls, which one of your videos has it? If you haven't, would you consider adding it to one of your upcoming videos? I've forgotten half of them, looked through the control file settings and can't find them. Particularly, the stupid hoverbike - I can't change zoom or view. Grrr... Thanks Spanj - hope the family's doing fine!!!
@monkeybarmonkeyman hit the ESC look at the top left for the gear, that will get you into your settings while in game you can also just change your keys to the way you like them.
Also just click on Spanj name under the bottom left, this will take you to all his Videos,
Start with the beginning ones that he has just released. check his building videos also as he explains in many of them different key combos do do different things in the game for building and such. he just released over the last couple months several new Videos for new people to the game to help them get up to speed with the game
And the New hover bike is quite good in comparison to the old Bike. Just go into your inventory and put it on your toolbar where ever you want then just click that key and set it out. The game will tell you how to pick it up either shift + F or Shift + E to pick it back up. Note: I'm a 100% disabled, My keys I have set different as I use a special keyboard as my hands barely work.
On Building in the game you need to make a core block for either Base, HV, SV, or CV put it in your Toolbar set it out. to start a build if you take over a POI you can just set a core unless it has a admin core these are special no build or claim POI's, which could be tied to the story or missions or if on someone's server maybe blocked so the poi will respawn.
Your building keys are also shown in your key bindings. Plus the game will take you by the hand on a lot of all this if you just do the starter missions as a beginner to get up to speed also the wiki. Good way to knock off the rust if you haven't played in a while.
you can get into the Building trees and almost everything by just hitting " F1, F2, F3 while in the game. Just go through the tabs in there. explore it all explains a lot about missions and the game even yourself and the spec's you have and the constructor.
Hope some of this helps you or any new people to the game to get into the game and just have fun.
And yeah i'm just a noob at this game myself lol
I was wondering if it’s possible to design a mini base to cover your auto miners with a teleporter inside, so you could easily access each auto miner and collect resources. What do you think?
I'm enjoying this playthrough and it's inspired me to replay this game, but how the hell do you reset the solo missions? I did a complete playthrough a while ago. Starting a new game (still on Akua) doesn't give me any of the solo missions though.
odd, should come up as soon as you start the game, try F1, Solo missions, see if there is anything there
@@Spanj Yeah, blonde moment I feel. I was still on the starter moon, I hadn't gotten round to warping to Omicron........... -.-
TY for the reply though!
I think I salvaged every scrap of xeno material in two of those POIs in my quest to get through the mission where you need to salvage 1000 of them.
don't really like using other's stuff, i prefer the satisfaction of building something myself
although definitely taking away some building inspiration from these :)
"With Vermillion it is never shoot something . . .,"
Which is exactly why it was "shoot something" this time. Vermillion seems to be changing things up.
ZHC= Zirax High Command ?
oops meant to leave that previous comment on the showcase video, guess i had both videos open and got my windows mixed up
This game doesn't get it's due keep it up bud
My RNG with auto miner cores is awful, I already finished first phase where I left Elyon system and all I got is just 2 autominer cores
You know me well, Spanj. I do like things easier. I have no problems using 'cheats'. Especially once I've finished the scenarios and am playing free form. On another note, I still cringe when I hear those pesky Legacy goons. But an interesting POI.
hi! may I ask why I was banned from your discord? ... And how I might make up for it? ;)
Yep nothing worse than Androids going commando
omg the am cores are so cheap in vanilla. and 55 grand for a med armor 😂
At this point the game become too easy imo. Beside there is no real purpose to build a huge ship. The concept of a base ship is not really realizable in Vanilla as smelter are only base items.
You certainly also start to suffer from the ever increasing mass of this base ship. Wich slows you down. Probably the worst mechanic iv'e seen so far in a game. Mass do not cut your end speed, speeding up just take longer.
Oh i agree with that top speed nonsense!
1st^^ lol